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Before we start with the actual example, lets have a look at the few concepts we should be aware of. Producer-Consumer Problem Wikipedia here says that: The consumer producer problem (also known as the bounded-buffer problem) is a classical example of a multi-process synchronization problem. The problem describes two processes, the producer and the consumer, [...]

In this article we will discuss about Java Agents. Java Agents are software components that provide instrumentation capabilities to an application. In the context of agents, instrumentation provides the capability of re-defining the content of class that is loaded at run-time. We will discuss this in more detail in the further sections. Download Source Code: [...]

POI, Apache POI – Java API to access Microsoft format files. POI (Poor Obfuscation Implementation) API is a fantastic way for Java programmers to access Microsoft document formats. The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft’s OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read [...]

1) Introduction Regular Expressions are basically patterns of characters which are used to perform certain useful operations on the given input. The operations include finding particular text, replacing the text with some other text, or validating the given text. For example, we can use Regular Expression to check whether the user input is valid for [...]

1) Introduction The feature of Generics in Java allows Applications to create classes and objects that can operate on any defined types. Programmers can now make use of the Generics feature for a much better code. There is no need for un-necessary casting when dealing with Objects in a Collection. This article provides a detailed [...]

1) Introduction Java 5.0 comes with a bunch of useful features. In this article, we are going to have an overview of the features like Enhanced for-loop, Variable Arguments, Static Imports and Enumerations. Apart from these features, we have already published other notable features in Java 5.0, auto boxing, generics and annotations. Buy generics book [...]

1)Introduction In the latest version of J2SE 5.0 released by Sun, Autoboxing is one of the new feature. Before J2SE 5.0, working with primitive types required the repetitive work of converting the primitive types into wrapper classes and vice – versa. Sometimes the purpose of conversion is just for some API call, after which the [...]

1) Introduction Annotations in Java is all about adding meta-data facility to the Java Elements. Like Classes, Interfaces or Enums, Annotations define a type in Java and they can be applied to several Java Elements. Tools which will read and interpret the Annotations will implement a lot of functionalities from the meta-information obtained. For example, [...]